If you’ve managed to avoid Comcast’s awful data caps so far, your luck is probably about to run out. Starting November 1st, 18 new markets will get hit with the 1TB data caps that some areas already deal with.

Verizon customers can now stream videos—including live NBA games!—from its otherwise-forgotten go90 video service without it counting towards their data caps! This sounds good, but it’s a trap. Here’s why.

The FCC recently established new rules to prevent ISPs from selectively degrading your connection to certain services, like some have done in the past. This tool, from Fight for the Future, can check to see if this type of degradation is happening to you.

It's a historic day for the internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just passed the strongest net neutrality rules in this country's history. This is great news! But let me repeat: The battle for net neutrality is still not over. In a sense, the real battle begins now.

Good news, America. Our president, Barack Obama, is finally standing up for the internet, and asking the FCC to classify it as a public utility. In other words, he's asking the agency not to allow destructive things like fast lanes (a.k.a. paid prioritization) or throttling. It's a great day!

If you're in favor of a neutral internet—one that's doled out equally to everyone, not preferentially to whomever pays the toll—you've got a few more hours to do something about it. At least, to do something about it the official way, by submitting a comment to the FCC urging the agency not to overturn net neutrality.…

With nearly 700,000 rants already filed, the public comment period for the FCC proposed net neutrality rules is up at midnight on July 15. That means you only have a few hours left to submit your original thoughts. Reply comments*, however, will be accepted until September 10.

We're busy people, and even the most savvy of us sometimes just don't have the time to learn about every odd and end in the tech world. Here are some of our favorite tech explainers on things you probably hear a lot about, but never really knew.

We've dropped the net neutrality term around here a few times, but you may not entirely understand what it's all about. Here's a primer on what net neutrality is, how it might affect you, and what you can do about it.

You might have a strong opinion on net neutrality, and you'd guess many more would, if they knew what was at stake. Link them to theopeninter.net, where the issue and stakes are explained in fairly clear fashion.

Time Warner Cable has stirred up a lot of frustrated users, rolling out bandwidth caps in several markets across the US. Still other internet providers are either openly or secretly throttling your bandwidth.

Google and a host of net-savvy partners have opened up a free set of web tools to help anyone determine if their net connection is blocking or throttling BitTorrent or otherwise limits their bandwidth.